Grade 8 Social Studies Quiz

What is the name of the group of people who have the power to make laws?

• Legislature

• Bill of Rights

• Freedom of Speech

• Habeas Corpus

What is the list of freedoms that a government promises to protect called?

• Legislature

• Bill of Rights

• Freedom of Speech

• Habeas Corpus

What is the right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction or penalty called?

• Legislature

• Bill of Rights

• Freedom of Speech

• Habeas Corpus

What is the principle that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime called?

• Legislature

• Bill of Rights

• Freedom of Speech

• Habeas Corpus

What is publishing false statements that damage a person's reputation called?

• Libel

• Magna Carta

• Middle Passage

• Slave Codes

What is the English document in 1215 that put restrictions on the power of the king and allowed the people to form a legislature called?

• Libel

• Magna Carta

• Middle Passage

• Slave Codes

What is the economic system that consisted of a cycle of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas called?

• Triangular Trade

• Habeas Corpus

• Indentured Servitude

• Divine Rights

What is the name of the second leg of the triangular trade that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves?

• Triangular Trade

• Habeas Corpus

• Indentured Servitude

• Middle Passage

What is the set of laws that were designed to help owners by restricting the rights and activities of slaves called?

• Slave Codes

• Gentry

• Middle Class

• Apprentice

What is the belief that one race is superior or inferior to another called?

• Racism

• Gentry

• Middle Class

• Apprentice